A Note to God

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Dear God,

First of all I just want to say that I don't envy your job. I think it is the hardest job ever created. Watching the ones you love make terrible mistakes and still finding it in your heart to love them. Loving them Not for the mistakes they have made, but for who you created them to be. It's amazing to me, thinking of how far you went to show your love, sending your one and only son to die for the sins of the world. That is an incredible sacrifice that I know I don't thank you enough for.

Today I am writing you because I like everyone else, just wanted to spend sometime with you and hope you we can talk about your word and how it applies to my life. As you know you have blessed me with so much, and given me the ability to chase my dreams and encourage others along the way. I often think about the people that you have placed in my life, and am in awe at the great gifts they are.

My questions is, why do I place my value in what people think of me and not in the fact that you call me worthy. I read your word and it reminds me of the time you put into creating me. I learn how I am not a mistake, and how I wasn't just thrown together. You put time into the person you brought into this earth 26 years ago:

For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.
-Psalm 139:13-16

I stand on that word and declare it over my life. Knowing that in my weakness there is your strength. I rest on the fact that I am confident in you. When I doubt that love is out there, I know that you are love, and you have created someone that loves me. I know that the woman who was created is whole in you and therefore we will be complete separately before we can ever be whole together.

God I thank you that if I never reach another goal in my life, that I have already been blessed well beyond anything that I could ever repay you for. I know that in your word it says:

Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
James 4:8

Thank you for believing that I am worthy, for you have billions of others that you created with the same love as you created me with. I know that you are a compassionate God. I can only imagine how your heart must hurt for the ones that you love so much. I know that your ways are high:

As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Isaiah 55:9

I know that this is a personal note Lord and I hope that whoever reads it will find the Love that you have for them as well. It is freely given and even though I feel sometimes as though I don't deserve it, I know you still do.

Today I embrace the Love you and have for me and release the guilt I have in myself. Thank you for the Love you gave!

Your son,

Chris





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